Record Details

Foreign Direct Investment: Agglomeration Economies and Returns to Promotion Expenditures

The Review of Regional Studies

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Title Foreign Direct Investment: Agglomeration Economies and Returns to Promotion Expenditures
 
Creator Kim, Seong-Hee
Pickton, Todd S.
Gerking, Shelby
 
Subject

 
Description The effect of a state’s financial incentives to attract foreign direct investments (FDI) is a frequent topic for both economists and policy makers. Many studies have shown that FDI are disproportionately concentrated in states with agglomeration economies. This paper uses a conditional logit model with FDI (new plants) data from 1987-1994 to explore the relationship between state efforts, state characteristics, and FDI attraction. Key results show that both promotion expenditures and agglomeration economies are important in attracting foreign plants. Results also indicate that promotion expenditures by states with small economies can partially offset location disadvantages of agglomeration (urbanization and/or localization) economies and thus appear to be a useful economic development tool as states compete for investment.
 
Publisher Southern Regional Science Association
 
Contributor
 
Date 2003-07-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://journal.srsa.org/ojs/index.php/RRS/article/view/58
 
Source The Review of Regional Studies; Vol 33, No 1: Special Issue: Regional Growth and Change; 61-72
0048-749X
1553-0892
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://journal.srsa.org/ojs/index.php/RRS/article/view/58/10